Garment hanger guard



June 9, 1953 H. B. TILLERY GARMENT HANGER GUARD Filed Nov. 6, 1950 Y K j 71 3 INVENTOR.

' P P Am w a TILLERY W wwromms Patented June 9, 1953 v h p Application November 6, 1950, Serial No. 194,282

3 Claims.

This invention relates to an improvement in guards for application to wire garment hangers, and which is particularly intended for supporting pants, skirts, and the like, on the hanger to eliminate the possibility of the garment being creased when folded and supported on the guard.

An object of the invention is to provide a guard which will have the necessary stability in supporting a garment without danger of crushing or becoming dislodged from the hanger.

Another object is in the provision of means; for maintaining the guard on the hanger, and which can be quickly and easily applied to a hanger.

The invention also consists in providing space on the guard for advertising purposes or indicating the name of the user or manufacturer.

The invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention applied to a wire hanger;

Figure 2 is an end view showing a portion of a hanger applied to the guard;

Figure 3 is the transverse vertical sectional view along line 3-3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of the guard before application to a hanger..

The guard is formed from a single sheet of sufliciently heavy paper or cardboard to give adequate rigidity thereto. The body or sheet of paper is folded at the center thereof, transversely of the sheet to produce two side members or portions lll-I0, which normally lie in spaced parallel relation. The body or sheet and side members ID are preferably of a length comparable to the length of the bar ll, of the hanger l2.

The sheet or body is now bent or rolled downwardly from opposite sides of the longitudinal center line of the sheet or guard toward the side members 10 and producing are shaped members |3-I3, which are disposed in parallelism with the side members. The two arc shaped members I3 produce an incomplete circle as the ends of the two members are spaced from each other, and also arranged in spaced relation with respect to the side members 10. In forming the are shaped or curved members IS, the body of the paper or sheet will be bent so that these curved members will be formed of two thicknesses of the body or sheet as indicated at A and B. The parts A and B of the members l3 are preferably secured together by an adhesive 15, which may extend the full distance of these overlying parts A and B. These overlying portions A and B constructed in this manner produce a very strong guard throughout its length, and afford the necessary rigidity thereto in supporting a garment on the guard and without the possibility of the guard crushing by the weight of the garment.

The portion A of the sheet or body forms the outer surface for each of the are shaped members l3, and also forms the supporting surface which engages the bar I I when the guard is applied to the metal hanger I2. The upper portions of the members Ill merge into the portions B of the sheet and extend outwardly away from the portion A to produce a longitudinal pocket [6 in the guard for the reception of the bar ll of the hanger.

By referring to Figure 4 it will be observed that the members II] are in spaced relation with respect to each other, but the distance between these members is less than the thickness of the bar ll so that in applying the guard to the bar II, the guard will be snapped into position on the bar II and retained in a rigid position upon the bar, due to the contact between the bar II and the parts A, B and III, as clearly indicated in Figures 2 and 3.

I claim:

1. A garment hanger guard comprising a sheet of relatively stiff material folded transversely of its length providing a center line, and two parallel spaced side members, said side members at their upper portions extending in an outwardly direction and terminating in an inwardly extending portion, said inwardly extending portions being united at said center line of said sheet and arranged superjacent and overlying the entire surface of said outwardly extending portions to provide a longitudinal supporting surface along and adjacent to said center line of said sheet of material, said overlying inwardly extending portion having the inner surface thereof spaced from the upper ends of said side members and inner ends of said outwardly extending portions to provide a longitudinal pocket for the reception of a bar of a hanger.

2. A gainent hanger guard comprising a sheet of relatively stiff material folded transversely of its length providing a center line and two parallel spaced side members, each of said side members at their upper portions having an outwardly extending arc-shaped part terminating inwardly extending part to receive a bar of .La?

hanger. 3. A garment hanger guard formed from relatively stifi sheet material and comprising two parallel slightly spaced rectangular side ;mem-

bers the upper edge of each menrber having a portion outwardly extending therefrom, said portions being of substantial dimension relative to the spacing between the side members, the outer edges of the portions being connected by an integral piece overlying the portions and the space between the side members.

HUBERT B. TILLERY.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,089,077 Todd et a1 Aug. 3, 1937 2,095,618 Schwartzman Oct. 12, 1937 2,187,535 Aljian Jan. 16, 1940 2,510,0l3' 'Tillery May 30, 1950 2,510,044 'I'illery May 30, 1950 

